The Sun. — London, England, 1826-08-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Colonial Times is a newspaper printed at Hobart town, ii' Van Diemen's Land, andlike other newspapers deals in public diScussion. But men of place and office, no matter where they may be stationed, have a sort of instinctive antipathy to the press. The fact is, we are apprehensive, that authority always feels jealous of opi , mom . It exercises and leans upon a species ofipower, to w!iich reason- is net amenable, and by which it will ,not be directed. Functionaries of all nations are incensed at this ; they art by will, and are importuned by argument. If their mere volition be from certain phySical metes more formidable than that of other men, and less liable to be resisted or traversed, blleh is not invariably the case with the intellecteel faculties of our official gentlemen. Hence are the whole rabble of Governors, secretaries, clerks, down to constables and bailiff's followers, rendered pecu liarly sore and snappish by the movements of an engine in the' presence of which their adventitious superiority de- , serts them. they call the press the " common enemy," but the hostile spirit which it excites in them has nothing of chivalry or generosity to exalt it. They seldom fight a literary assailant on equal terms—man to mate or para graph to paragraph. They manoeuvre to keep the weather-gage of him ; and strike, whethrr fair or foul, from the vantage-ground of their position, by silencing, banishing, or prosecuting ex-officio, for a libel. The Colo nial Times has suffered through Mr. Bent, its editor, from the last-mentioned mode of animosity. Early, as we find, in the year 1825, he gave some offence to the nerves of people in power by the, pungency of his observations as a journalist, In September folloWing he was found guilty of a libel ; and on the 20th of March last-sis months afterwards---he was brought up to receive the sentence of the Court, .viz.—to be imprisoned three mrinths (after being for the six preceding months in custody, or subject to bail), to pay a tine of 2001., and to give heavy security for future peaceable- s -that is, servile- r eonduct. To the grounds of the verdict we say but little. One of the counts on which Mu. Bent was prosecuted, laid against him the very heinous charge of designating a certain en lonia] uppoilainerit by the title of a " non-deeeript job," and this at Van Dieinen's Land in a lihcl! In noticing this part of the case, the Chief, Justice took ' care to " saddle the right horse" with its highly honourable burden. His Lordship, or Worship, or whatever he might be, observed, that with " regard to the .sth count, the libellous nature thereof was not so ap parent—l admit (quoth he), that it is by no means plain ; but it went to the Jury." "The words were, speaking et a public appointment as a nondescript job, and the Jury found that this was libellous." A worthy verdict from the precincts of Botany-bay, and a Jury well illustrating the spirit of colonial justice ! Nor was the proceeding of the Government, which pressed for judgment after a verdict had been hanging, for six months over the head of the ac eusecl, inconsistent with the constitutional feeling - by which these precious jurors had been animated. A judg .ment so delayed could answer no useful end. The lapse of time; and intervention of other Occurrences, had broken the identity of the ease, and separated the transgression from the sentences - No striking example, 'therefore, could in all human probability be made by such a punishment, or salutary influence be exercised over the pUblie. None but feelings unworthy of a legal tribunal, or of a self-approvin,g Government, could be indulged by a visi tatiou.so tardy as to amount to torture, and so irregular and unfrequent as almost to assume the character of out rage.—lf in India, inhabited by 80 millions of foreign slaves, where fear alone maintains the Government, and where the growth of a political mind, or of a popular sym pathy, might he fatal to it—if, we say, in such a country the question of a free press be one upon which men of enlightened views may conscientiously differ, it is not so in colonies altogether titional, where the institutions and habits of Englishmen ought to be cherished, if we would extend and perpetuate throughout the globe the name and greetnetis of ,our country: Colonists will yeas' to be Eng h4citizens, if the enjoyment', of free thought and Wl guege are thus systematically curtiiiled. The Capeis just recovering from the effects of this iniquitous policy. The Westindiati colonies have not yet been afflicted by it, nor what remains of our North American possessions. Let the whole empire then unite in upholding the freedom of dismission in a iparter, where, from the history and eh meter of the population, it is essential 'that the steps of office should be watched, and its encroachments wisely anticipated. The polder of oppression is strongest at the extremities;., that. of resistance at the centre of a free state ; Inn this truth ought to be founded the spirit of our colonial policy. The Goverment at home must naturally desire to see the people contented with their local rulers; and to draw from the activity and jealousy of the press the most effectual means of observing or controlling their malpractires. All authority will he despotic if it and in stub an enterprise the most distant from the pa rent state is likely to be most successful.—nines. The situation of Europe at the present moment is, per haps, without a parallel in history. It can only be eorre. pared to the period of the early_ legislators in Greece, when the different States began almost contemporaueously toimitate the example of Sparta, in establishing their se parate ysorerns of' organised liberty. Like Sparta in Greece, this country in Europe set the example of popular leg4,l,ition, and showed, by the 'stability. of her Goveni testa the incalculable advantages of free institutions. The only tenet of differeoce in the two CasCs is, that the imper fect form of the Republic in the former, has given place in the latter to the limited Moitarchy—a form the best adapt ed of any for securing the liberty and tranquillity of a country. A. Republic may exist in the midst of Republics, or at a distance from other Powers, like the United States of America ; but the inaptitude of the form of Govern meta for attack or defence must render it quite impracti cable in the larger States of Europe. To tumulte, our rallel of Greece, going back a little to our school-boy lore, we Shall find that the liberal feelings in many of the States took their first rise in the breasts of Monarchs or of Royal personages. It is needless to mention the various legisla tors of Sparta, Athens, &e. who all appear to have exerted themselves for the promOtion of their country's freedom with a degree of enthusiasm which, a hundred yeafs ago, would have seemed to the greater part of the world abso lutely incomprehensible, but of which, in our own dayi we "Uric 'Wen many illustrious examples,. some of them not iviferi m . to t h ose o f ant i qu i t y." The object of these re merits is to show that the efforts of all the friends of liberal pcirmiples ought. nosv.to In direeteit to the propagation of those principles, with a view to their effect upon the minds of the Sovereigns thernseives, instead of turning their .at tendon to the derk treheirto of designing conspirators or to toeless and unauttesmanlike projects of carrying points, by force which could be carried much more easily and e ff ectua lly by mere address, An itielination to allow cer , twin name,, assn forms, for wine].) politicians struggle much more frequently and bitterly than for any thing real and. substantial,would probably enable the frie n d s o f po li t i ca l freedom to effect most of their really beneficial objects with the consent and concurrence 'of theSe whom they now consider as irreclaimably opposed to *melt improve ments. Such a disposition would at least remove one grea t obstacle to success ; and we have no doubt that in the end every thing desirable will he aeromplished by the regular authorities, as at present constituted, Ti m pr i sm , eipies now at work throughout Europe are of an into perishable and growing nature; and a government , which should 'set in opposition to them would be as sure to re pent its conduct, as one which, like our own, eankmpg itself to the course of the stream, is sure to promote_ its own interests in promoting those of the na tions around. 7 It becomes the Ministers of Engiand to avow the prima- Plea of Englishmen ; arid Mr. Caroling would have been unworthy of the distinguished situation which he holds if he had acted with less spirit than he leas done upon all occasions where it was necessary to express his sentiments tilion such 611- j ects; J but no one has any right to expect that he should w ,f/me forand avow himself the framer of Tie* ,CtinggeWilWßlE -Allies. The Portuguese Consticit*tit4 myidenee that it WAS not framed . • _ „ , underhis direction ; tor it has evidently been formed merely by introducing such alterations in the Brazilian form of government as were rendered necessary by the diversities in the circumstances of the two countries. As ourancient and faithful Ally, Portugal has a claim on every English Minister, Mr. Canning had an undoubted right to inter est himself in the settlement of her affairs; and who dare say that England has net a right to protect freedom in one country, if France has a right to destroy it in another ? With the particidar the have been male y Don Pedro, as the legitimate. .and undisputed Sove e ign of Portugal, England has nothing to 'do. It was kw The King of ~Portugal to settle the affairs of his king (l4 as he thought proper, by virtue of the powers vested in him by the laws of the realm, as existing at his acces sion. If any foreign Power were to interfere in such a case, it' would commit an outrage against legitimacy in the person of Don Pedro, and an insult to England in the person of her Ally. England did not dictate the Portu, guese Charter to Don Pedro; it was neither her duty nor her wish to do so • but she will support the dispositions of Don Pedro with all her might, ,unless he shall himself cease to enforce them. It is true, as some of our contem poraries have lately asserted, that no sudden transforma non will take place‘in the state of a nation in consequence of a Constitution; and, no doubt, in many cases disap pointments may take place similar to those mentioned in the article from Darmstadt, - whidi we have given else where; but, whatever may be. supposed to be the,cool 'less Of many foreign nations on this subject, it is still a design worthy of England, and honourable to an English Statesman, to promote the cause of civil liberty through out the world.---Nritish Press. It is not often that we are tempted to explore the mys teries of our Police-offices for subjects of grave and ela borate discussion. Our worthy contemporary, : the Chro. nide, has a sort. of monopoly of these topics, and from a county magistrate, down to a night constable, not a man who has any thing to do with rogues and vagabonds but should have before his eyes a proper and laudable fear of this unrelenting and indefatigable Paul Pr y. , A case oc curred, however, yesterday, at Marlborough-street; some of the actors , in which deserve to be held .up to publiC animadversion. It was that of a poor old blind woman, turned seventy, who took her daily stand in Saville ! passage, to receive the unsolicited donations of charitable passers by. It was not pretended that this forlorn and afflicted creature, on the very threshold of the grave, im portuned any one : there she stood, a silent suppliant for alms—feeling, doubtless, that her aged aspect, and the sad visitation which bad fallen upon her, were claims strong enough to awaken pity without one word of solici tation. It is with sentiments of deep abhorrence we add, that some officious guardian of the streets—one of those gentry who: leave the grossest nuisances untouched— dragged this m i sera bl e being before the magistrate, and had her sent to .prison for begging! But her pitiable state, it seems, had long since excited the sympathy of Lord Maryborough and hiS amiable Lady; and his Lord ship, hearing of her being committed, attended at the Police-office yesterday to obtain her liberation.. The-be uevolent zeal with which he exerted himself in her he half was highly creditable to his humanity.--Nei' Time,. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOTNE.—Turnpanny, the police officer, ap peared botbre the tOan Ma OR, to answer a charge of misconduct preferred againat him'hy Mr. R. Taylor, the printer and Common Councilman, of Shoe-lane. The evidence in support of the charge was that of a poor Irish woman, who stated, that Turnpenny had seized her basket of fruit which was the only stock she had in the world, and had taken it to the Workhouse. • The was at. the lime selling , her fruit st a place quite out of the way of passengers, where she had been per mitted by the parish olCirerr to sell it. Mr. Taylor said, that, he brought this ease forward with the view of getting the piMter . of the police-officers, beadles, and others, in such catiest,'delinell'or had to. complain that•thess men were often guilty of the most brutal violence in their mock, of • proceeding' against• these poor women. They seized' capriciously the goods of particular women ; they took them to the work house, where they were confiscated and divided without further procesa by the Master and mistress of the workhouse, and not un frequently, he was assured, the heatlles, or other officers, con damned the hpplca or other fruit, aa aJawful prize to themselves, and divided it, as a dessert, with their children, while the poor Women, whose property it was, went weeping borne to their chil dren, who were that deprived of their bread, or their means of getting any.' He thought these women ought not to be disturbed or hunted out of the streets, so long as they did not obstruct the footpaths. lie thought it well to have the gifts of Pomona dis played throughout our streets ; for, whilst the pilasengers were in. sited to partake of grateful and Wliolesoine fruit, which otherwise would pot be so easily got at a cheap rate, hundreds, he might say thousands, of poor women were maintained by its aide, and there by kept from being buidentantie . to their parishes. This was the ease. with the poor woinan now before his Lordship. She had been set up by the parish officers at a few shillings' expence, and • had since that time ceased to he a burden. Mr. Roberts, of Fleet-market, a Common Councilman of the /lame ward, attended with several of the inhabitants, and some other officers of the same parish, to support the defendant. Mr. Roberts said, the officer, were in this ease placed in a cross tire. [liras& and a number of the inhabitants were eternally at them for not doing their duty by clearing the footpaths of these women, whilst lir. Taylor and one or two others, from motives of hu manity, were always at them for meddling with them. In Fleet market they thronged the footways so as to render them almost impassable. The language of these women, and of those who associated with them, was often such as to render the first floors uninhabitable by respectable females. When any one of the of fenders was pursued she took refuge amongst the butchers in the market, who were cure to take part with her against the officers. For his part, and tho,.e of his fellow inhabitants, he was of opi nion that they ought to he entirely removed. Mr. Taylor (petitioned one of the complainants who appeared with Mr. Roberts, whether his show-board did not project some distance over the footpath ; hr. iehictantly admitted that it did. Mr. Taylor begged to inform him, that it was equally illegal . 'with the act of standing upon the pavement. There were *eve- . ral officers who kept pigs, and illegally sidered them to run about the streets. He thought a pig a far greater nuisance in the streets than a woman with a basket of fruit. Ile merely mentioned these things to show that the poor women were not the only of fenders against the act, and that they were as well deserving of lenience as others. The Loan MAYOR said, that these fi:uit-wornen were certainly in some instances so numerous as to become nuisances. On re ference to the act, it would be seen that it was illegal to stand in any part of the streets. In some instances poor women were kept from their parishes ; in ethers, , the wives ,of journeymen were taken away from the care of their children, by the hopes of getting is few shillings more, which did riot, in his opinion, coin petutte for the mischief done to their families by their abilence. They might in some cases be tolerated, where they did not stand over the foot-path, or in any way impede the public thorough fare. The course he had pursued was, to check the evil, by or dering that no new corners should, in any instance, under any pretence, he allowed to have,baskets standing on tremolo. Ile suggested to Mr. Roberts that he should select those who used had lattguagei ,and have them removed. Mr. Roberts—lll take up the whole of them. We might en dure half-a-dozen of thew, but four-score is a nuisance. The Loan Maion:-.-You have no power to take them up. Mr. Itoherts--What, I meant way, that I would enforeir the law by the officers. - Mr. Taylor begged to recall his his Lordship's attention to the great point on which he came forward—namely, whether the s e poor women should be placed under a sort of martial law, and the officers he allowed to stilts their fruit, and confiscate it with ! out the cognizance of a Magistrate. 1 Loin ktAmt—Certainly not : the officers are hound to briny; the parties' regularly before the Magistrates. g ta•lll.oar.tti.,:T a li i° l t d r ! h o e r n h v a i i i r e ad t w tl ° them ma se vere doubt e kss e nal t: t o y u than re "4„o:::,bvehl:carh: 2!-' Was worsts' than the mere seizure of the fruit the Atioatra.o w that the immix eirahle. IV e. hr, under all eireimstatiees, far the moat de lenienct curl dizetitotnexereige the powers of the set with snore the beedlea and o ffi eere; . He was averse to intrust such: power to them when they did theithaalways "Ineforward to encourage duty hu poor and un p rott , a 4 , t discretionary power over the, abuse. "", to their hands, extremely liable to The CAW was then disinissed, Mr. Taylor being satisfied with the declaration of his Lordship. Mr. R o b erto went awa y, do datiog that he would abate the imitative in his neighbourhood. A very tespectable looking elderly nun was fully committed for stealing two pieces of bbon from the shop of Mr. Tickle, of Aldttate. ' ' ' The prisoner went into the shop under pretenee of purchasing a 'quantity of ribbon, and took the opportunity of secreting the two pieces in question. The Loan Maxpa, regretted exceedingly to , see a man of the prispner's appearance, who was evidently respectably connected, plaued in so disgraceful a situation : from, ; the prisoner's own evi dence, he had friends able to relieve him, and he ought to have applied to them. His Lordship was compelled to perform his ditty. The prisoner appeared to labour under great distress of mind. 6UILDUALL.--Among the evil doers brought before Mr. Aldisman WAITHMAN yesterday morning ; was one Mrs. Jane Iftivitt, a matron on the wrong side of forty, rather dumpy, and very brown. She had been handed over to the custody of the watch by Mr. William Hewitt, a tall and comely, though rather elderly, purveyor of beef and. mutton to the lieges in and about Crown-street, Dorset-street, Salisbury -squar e; and he now ap peared in the witness-box to chew cause why he had handed her over as aforesaid. 'I This lady at the bar," said he, came • to my h ouse at three o'clOck this morning, and disturbed a lady in labour, and what's more, she called me every thing—but a gentleman ; so I gave her in charge to the watch, and here she is." And there he stopped, for he was a man of few words. '0 Why should she come to your house? What provocation had you given her?" asked the Alderman. " None in the world," replied the tall and taciturn butcher. " Please your Worhip, I'm his wife I" said the lady at the bar. Is that true," asked his Worship ; and the tall butcher, lay ing:aside his taciturnity, replied as follows :- 9 In the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, I had the misfortune to marry this lady at Stepney church, and after it was over, I said to her, Well, now,. Jane, love, we'll go home and get - a bit of dinner comfortable to ourselves.' No,' says she, ' I'd rather go to a public-house, If it's all the same to you ;' and accord ingly we did go to a public-house, and there we had a pint of ale; for I thought it best, you know, to let her have her own way on the fiat day of our marriage." " Well, never mind what you had, or where you went," said the Alderman, " that is nothing at all to us, you know." ‘ Very true," your Worship," xejoined the butcher—" that's all my own.husiness certainly, and a bad busine3s it was, for she was nothing .else but a conanion p— then, and she's been nothing else since." " And what of that ?" exclaimed hie eara sposa, interrupting him ; " did'nt you drive rne out, pray ?" " Drive you out !" replied he ; " it was you who drove me out, I think. • I)id'nt I go to the East Indies and to the West Indies on purpose to get out of your way ?" • " Yes, you did, and was turned out of the ship for laying an in formation against your Captain for carrying counterband goods!" replied bin amiable spouse. " Ab, you arc a bitter hussy," rejoined the butcher ; and there the connubial colloquy was cut short by the Alderman asking him how long he and his wife had been living apart. " Till thin blessed morning at three o'clock," replied he " I have never seen her these eleven years past." " Why then you have had a long repose," said the Alderman, " and ought to consider yourself a very happy man. One visit from your wife in eleven years is surely not much."- - The lady now said that she didn't want to go near bin, at nll, if he would allow her a maintenance. "He ran keep another lady," said she, " and afford to have children, and I'll make him keep me, or I'll know what it stick% at !" the other lady, it appeared, was the " lady in labour," of whom the unfortunate butcher had spoken in opening his case ; and the Alderman dismissed the case, upon the lady at the bar promising not to go near her husband's house again, but to seek redress by . applying to the parish officers ► who would compel him to allow her a reasonable maintenance.. BOW-STREET.—Joseph Honwn, a man nearly six feet in height, and strong in proportion, who keeps a carpet warehouse in the Strand, was charged by John Johns, a worknvin in hii employ, with an absault of an aggravated and unmanly descrip tion. John Johns, an emaciated sickly-looking young man, with a desperate black eye, stated that on the evening of Saturday last he was in the shop of the defendant, by whom he was employed as a weaver. He asked for a little money on account of his wages, which was denied him, and on remonstrating with Mr. Homan, he struck him a blow on the eye, the effect of which was visible to all. He (the witness) endeavoured to retaliate, but being consti tutionally weak, the superior strength of Mr. Homan was ton notch fur hint, and he was beaten by lain in CIL cruel manner, not only with his fist* , but with a *tick also. Here the complainant offered to show the. magistrate the marks which he bore on his body ; but Sir•lt. Hiatus said, that see ing the state of his eye was sufficient to assure him of the had nine be had met with, and he called upon Mr.. Homan to ex plain, if he could, why he had beaten the young man in such a savage manner. - • ' Mr. Yomen then began. to accuse the complainant with inat, teotion to his , business and general ►misconduct. Last week, he said, when be ought to have been at work, he found him asleep in his loom. - The complainant amwered, that at the time he was asleep tL. re was no work to do. Mr. Hon►an---You can urn Us. a-week, if you will; but you are tau indolent to work. ComPittium4-4 know 1 can tarn as lunch ; but you know also that we have pad no work to do these many moralist. lair R. 13tatits,4 cannot listen to your disputes. A distinct charge of assault has been sworn against you, Mr. Homan, for which 1 Khan require you to find bail. Mr. Homan was then locked up, in default of bail, but pro cured it in the course of the day. Johnson, who has made himself so obnoxious to a variety of tradespeople in and about the metropolis, by lodging informations against them for short weights, irregularity-, Ste., appeared in company with a respectable-looking woman, to prefer two indict ments again►t William Fitchew, pawnbroker, of Nu. 1, Church way, New-road, St. poem. The first indictment charging Mr. Fitchew with taking more interest on a pledge than the act allows, being read, Mr. Fitchew .pleaded «Not Guilty." Mrs. Ann Smith, of Ilighgate-hill, the principal witness, de.., pow', that on the 26th of May lest, she went to the, shop ofJllr. Fitchew, and there pledged two pieces of linen foi: Si. She got separate duplicates for each piece. She was told that she must pay three-pence for each duplicate, and ►►nt having the change about her, sixpence, in addition to , the sum lent, was marked on one of the duplicates. On the 16th of August - she went with this ticket to redee►n one, of the pieces 01 and was charged J/. 12s. lid., being 6.1. a month for the use of the money, fid. for the ticket, and .1 id. as interest for that tid. 'Ur three 'months- Johnson here produced the pawnbroker's Act, by which it ap peared that the pawnbroker should have charged only 24. for each ticket, awl that the charge of as interest on the 6d. was quite illegal. . Mr. Fitchew endeavoured to explain, that in charging 6d. for the tickets he included a charge of 2d, for the use of a wrapper which, at the request of Mrs. Smith, he put round the linen. James Sayer, his clerk, swore to the same effect, but Mrs. Smith positively and distinctly denied that such ►was the fact. .Mr. Fitchew was then convicted in the stun of 40a,, with the usual costs. In the hecond 'case, a MD, named Aaron Rawlins, wits employed by Johnson, to whom Mrs. Smith had related the facts detailed above, to go to the shop of Mr. Fitchew with the same piece of linen, the day after it was redeemed from pledge. The same de mand of Bd. was made for the ticket, and the same defence set up —,namely, that the additional penny was for the use ofa wrapper. Fitchew was afoin convicted in the sum of 40s, and costs, We hope that the publication of this me will have the effect of checking the extortion,of,pawnbcokers, who ton often escape con victian'and exposure, owing chiefly to the poverty and ignorance of those on whom theiimpoae. It may not be *mime to add, that a hint was was dropped to the writer of this report, not to giv e it publicity, and it was istiplitst that a bribe should reward his silence. M AR LBOROUGII-STREET.—Lord Maryborough made au application at an 'early hour yesterday to Mr. CottatsT, on behalf o f n.poor old blind woman of the name of Eleanor. Goodall, aged '7O, who was committed to the House, of Correction for beggi ng , on Thursday l as t, b y Mr. Roe, one of the Magistrates of thi s office. His. Lordship on enter i ng th e o ffi ce , handed his card to Mr. C onant , the Sitt i ng Magistrate, and s t ate d that the po ur o ld woman occasionally received relief fr om him and, Lady •Itiaryhorough f o r the last twenty years , both i n food and clothes. The poor woman's husband was eighty years Old, and a more harnileia, old cou ple could not possibly b e , How she could have been char* with begging his Lordship could not imagine, for she stood during the day in a passage convenient to his Lordship's house, with a small basket of cakes, covered with a net, eePosed for sale, anti she held out her hand to receive pay ment for what the passengers might wish to buy. The money which she received she put into a cap which was suspended to the basket. What was „lied b eg ging, appeared to hie Lordship to be quite different. The poor creature did not ask for alms ; she did riot annoy the p u bli c i n any manner, by importuning' or otherwise, and .what the .committing .I %lagiatrate might have construed into an offence again s t the laws his Lordship could not divine. Mr. Cot said that the case was heard heron bilr• Roo mid not before him, so that he could not inform his Lordship upon what evidence Mr. Roe acted. . „ Lord Maryborough requested to see the commitment book, to ascertain the precise nature of the offence. Mr. CONANT sent for the , book, by Which it appeared that Eleanor Goodall was committed to the Hansa of CorrectiOn for bein " idle and disorderly:" Lord Maryborough appeared astonished at such a commitment. His Lordship was informed that the offence was begging; but now it apeared on the face of a public record, that it was for being . " idle and disorderly." An accusation against a poor old blind woman of 70, for being ." idle and disorderly," should not have been listened to by any Magistrate. Mr. CONANT said, if the beadles or constables had given im proper evidence in the case, they 'should he po.nished. Lord Maryborough was aware that those people were unneces sarily officious in most instances, and inefficient when their ser vices were required by. the public. They made themselves very active.by annoying such poor helpless creatures as Goodall. Hie Lordship should spare no expense or trouble in having justice done, to this old woman. Bucklin, the constable of St. James's, said, that he had taken Eleanor Goodall into custody frequently for a similar offence, and the Magistrates cautioned het' against appearing in the streets any more. Mr. Dawson, living in the neighbourhood of St. James's, complained of the annoyance of the old woman before his house. Lord Maryborough asked if Mr. Dawson the barrister was alluded to ; and wss answered in the affirmative. He did not know but she might have been placed before Mr. Dawion's door intentionally, to have some cause of complaint against her. Jackson, a beadle, said that he found her in Series passage, near St. James's, one Sunday, without her basket of cakes. Lord Alaryborough said, if the poor creature had the basket on that day, he had no doubt but that the beadle would take her into custody for a violation of the Sabbath. It was in such pursuits that those people fitted away their time, without any benefit to the public. Fagan, a clerk in the employment of the Mendicity Society, said that Goodall was a person of vile character. He knew that she lived with an old fellow, whom she called her husband, and that She sometimes called herself Webiter. Lnrd Maryborough said he never heard of such Wretches in all hit life. His Lordship knew the • old couple for 20 years, and never before heard the least imputation against their characters. Had he not known them so long, he could not even imagine that two such creatures, one seventy and the other eighty, would have been guilty of impropriety like that. His Lordship did not believe a word, of it. Mr. CONANT said that there was no accounting for tastes.—(A laugh.) Fagan said that she refused to go into the house though re quested several time.. Lord Maryborough thought that if those people were really anxious to relieve the wants of the poor, they could find a suffi cient number on whom to bestow their charity, and who often sought in vain; but this poor woman was annoyed by them be cause they knew that she did not want their assistance. It was disgracefid, and contrary to the spirit, as well as the laws of the British Constitution, to oblige any person to go into the work house against their will. Mr. CONANT said the only thing that he could do for the pre sent, would be to have the old woman brought up again. Lord Maryborough said that the committal appeared illegal on the face of it. She was charged (in his Lordship's opinion with out sufficient evidence) with begging, and was committed for being "idle and disorderly." His Lordship concluded by saying, that unless the old woman was immediately discharged, he should make an application in another quarter, and he would have justice done to her at any expence. in dignant. Thomas office Hie Lordship then left the quite Thomas Annis, who was in custody upon a charge of forgery, by altering the date of a bill of exchange, accepted by a man named Finch, was brought up for re-examination. A Solicitor attended on 14 behalf, and contended that the act imputed to the prisoner was no forgery at all, and that if it even were a crime, it was done With the concurrence of the acceptor himself, which took the 'sting out of ' it. On referring to the Act j of Parliament on the subject, the Magistrate found, that although the altering the date of a bill of exchange, with a view to acce lerate the payment of it, was a forgery, yet that an alteration, with a view to retard the payment, was not declared to be so ; and the prisoner was therefore discharged. The solicitor on the other side declared, that he would now proceed against the prisoner for obtaining the bills from Mr. Finch under false pretences, HATTON-OAItDEN.-7-Anne Ransom, a respectable looking girl, fifteen years of age, was charged with the following robbery It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Joseph Lee, a linen-draper residing in Upper-street, Islington, that for a considerable time past he had occasionally missed various articles from his shop, and among the rest several whole piece's of printed cottony, but could in no way account for their disappearance. During the whole of this time the prisoner at the bar was a daily customer for some trifle or other. On Friday last she came as usual, and, on leaving his shop, was observed by a lad in his employ to abstract a piece of printed cotton, worth about 41. from a low shelf , near the counter, and before he (witness) could he •in 'formed of it she had vanished. She came again yesterday afternoon, and was identified by the boy, in consequence of which an officer was seat for, and she was given in custody. On his r oa d t o t h e lice this morning, accom panied by his lad, the latter had suddenly ran from hi m , and did not appear to b e a t present forthcoming. Mr. Sergeant SIMIAN said thateircumstunce, he thought, seemed rather suspicious. He must have the boy's evi dence, and if any means had been used to keep him away, he ,would issue a warrant to force his attendance. He then inquired if the property had been traced ? Mr. Lee said it had been pledged close to his house ; and at several other pawnbrokers he had found property of his. The time had been too short to bring them all forward, but he had one in attendance, and he thought he Could bring others who would identify the prisoner who had pled ged . the di ff erent art i c l es. Mr. Sergeant SELLON said it was a most atrocious ease in one of her tender years, and to afford every opportu nity of a full investigation, ha would remand her for a weeLALMBETII-STREET.—Yesterday, Thomas Kinger was brought up for final examination, of o S ira charg e eurr.e j of having forged the name of William Cotton, Esq., of Laytonsycoofintreiiisrto,.aßnaieinio)c.ahmec.iku for he ,1 2 1 6 1e L p I r t an s. n o n i r i , tl w ie h l o ns n h k fa i i ng t h n ous i e n ea o w n tinn t i l ie r 17th of last month presented a check purporting C t to h o e l t i t C e o a n d:: y oa ll y . f i r n . g W th i a ll t ia he m Chaoltitnono,t ttohel:lr,timLiensetoll,gaogmfocreriatnted draper at Layton, who cashed it for him at hie request, he at London himself. On the '7th inst., Mr. Cope, one o f t h e c i ty tnars h a l a, i n consequence of p r i vate i n f ormation he had received, appreheruled the prisone r a t hi s l o d g i ngs, and nn rieerc hi ng hi s apartments, found a pocket-book sealed up, among the cont en t s o f w hi ch were three blank cheeks, of a form No.. 2, Towler-street, Blackfriars, similar to that passed to Mr. Linsell, together with a printed card, bearing the•name of George Term, floor-cloth and car pet manufact ur e r i n t h e Borough, to whose order the check was made payabl e . .Th e check was subsequently passed b y. Mr., Lin sell to M r . S trange, a cheesemonger, in Bishopsgate-street, whose clerk. b e i ng i n attendance, deposed as follows : The check n ow produced was handed to won the 25th of J u l y , by the son of Mr. Linsell, to be placed to his father's account. I kept it in my desk until the following day, when I paid it into our bankers' hands, the Messrs. Hanker.. On the 27th it was returned to us from that firm, with an intimation of its being a forgery. lin consequence wrote to Mr. • Linsell, and appris e d at the next him of the circumstance. totakehisr trial i n William . -street, Blackfriars, Mr. Hoppe, coal-merchant, stated that the prisoner lived in his service as footman for about a seven sovereigns) which had been year. He hail seen 'bins write, and thought the check hie hand_ writing. Chelmsford Assizes. his solicitor requested that a portion of . The prisoier was fully comm b i a t r ted , should be restored to him to • found upon him, _ the Magistrate defray the ex pellees o f hi s defence, and the was about giving an P . revioint ,i t i i e , h m is oi l i r e a y vi ( o t g hi t r h ty a . order that act much when Mr. as exceeded the am ount of Mr. Linsell's check shou ld h e. given hint;Gates, for the printeenti on , in terposed, and observed, that there was another charge against him for obtaining 941. on a forged cheek from thellank of Sir William Curtis and Co. tiNION-HALL. —James Barnett, the owner and driver of a horse and car t, appeared to answer . an information charging him with conveying contraband silks, to a large amount, in his cart. Samuel Morrey, the enstom-houae officer who made the seizure, stated that he stopped the defendant a few days ago driving' e.eart along the Borough, in which with a case similar to those in which eggs are ttenitl4 packed. He asked what it contained, and the defendant said "Eggs, to be sure," and added tha't he Was taking them into the city for a Frenchman, who had just conic over from Dieppe with a cargo; whoin lie *as td meet at the'fbot of London •• bridge. The informant not crediting the story, jut xoped into the • cart, desiring to see the owner of the eggs. Having te sited a con siderable time at the appointed place, and nd foreigm making his appearance to claim the case, 14Iorrey proceeded to °lash it, and In stead of eggs discovered that it contained 1 , 820 e ll s of 'foreign Bilk; 48 silk gauze shawls, and several pieces of Bandana hat td kerchiefs: the value of the whole amounting to upwards of 500/. The ' se ing officer conveyed the silks to the Custom - house , and! 40Poited them in the King's warehouse. The horse and cart w rrr, e subse quently taken to the' green-yard. The defendant hav;ug persisted in the same story as to Iris . ign°" ranee of the description of property the case contain ed, bele.," it was opened by the officer; , the Magistrate condemned the hr. I" and cart and ordered it to b..' sold. A drover, named Elcock, w.'e charged by a patrol with crui4t to a lamb that he was driving alorif the street. The complainant stated, that on the preceding day he observed the defendant beating a lamb in a most unmerciful manner. and when he was expostulated with for his barbarity, be becinna . " l " tremely insolent, and ultimately assaulted the patrol. The defendant was fined !Os. and held to bait for the assault. AN EXTRAORDINARY FEMALE: , --MARGARET CARRUTMERS.-..—This extraordinary wt roman has been employed annually by Richard Breeks, Esq., and 'his ancestors, at Warcop, in Westmorland, as a reaper, from the year of the Rebellion, 1745, until the present season of 1826, without one single. intermi. Ision ; and such has been her athletic powers, that she you'd .ex. ceed in reaping (nearly the whole of the perk ''(1), performance of any male labourer in the count , v• r=d l e is now bordering on ninety years of age, yet - , Mess ed with all her intellectu a l as well as physical powers '' - and is to be seen regularly, every week,. travelling on foot, backwards and forwards to Appleby market, a dist awe of ten miles, for the purpose of vending a quantit y of wicker baskets and chairs (which she straps to • tier back), the product of her. industry during the r t st week. A gentleman, now. in London, who has kno nn her from his infancy, saw her very lately immerse( Ito the waist in asmall stream, leading into the river Ed' en, enjoying the sport of fishing for trout, and actur alp partook of a part of the fish the old lady had decoy, •tid Into her net. HE MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of Tuesday.) SuGaft—The demand for Muscovades last week wan steady and extensive, the estimated sales were 1,000 Ws each day, the Pe kes generally were ls. per cwt. higher, and the Sugars from 6° , - ' J r" wards rate high in proportion to the inferior description. 0 " a ' count of their scarcity.—Scarcely any low brown Sugars offered. under 525. The Barbadoes public sale to-day went off 2 16 l' i g i ; e . r. • 355. 6d. a 375. The Market opened this morning wi th the '7OO bags Bengal at the previous prices, good and fine mi n ter great firmness, and the holders generally asked a further dv t re of Is. a 2s. per cwt . which prevented the usual sales tilelY day. At the close of the Market the purchases by private nontr ac were estimated at 2,000 hhds, generally at 2s. per esvt • hiFluts- The cause of the improvement of the Sugar Market to-day, . 14 the report of distillation from Grain being prohibited in Ireland ; the steady and extensive demand for the home cornsumption, n"" also continued request fur export.--The late deliveries Iron the warehouses are fully as extensive as last year, a veraging' • nearly 4,000 hhds. each week : the difference of! the stock di"' and last year is now only about 4,000 casks--182 5, 33 ' 4 , 6 , 6 hhds, 3,294 tierces ; 1828, 37,288 hhds; i,705 tierces. ' , Ji ll pricei are about 15s, per cwt. lower. In the Re fi ned Market last week •there'was a steady and extensive demand, and the quan th Y of goods . otleriPg was inadequate to the-request : yesterdey the" the was Again a gre4k revival in the trade, and a general advent! took place ; no i.:unps offered under 76 e. and for rhicl' there was a general reve.et ; also for Bastards for export, which were is. higher.—The grocers purchased extensively for the home trade, at also advancing prices ; Molasses were b7s. The Refined Market is again brisk, this morning scarcely any good' are left on sale; at the chew albs day no Liunpa offer under 770* —The Grocers continue their purchases of fine goods, Molasses , are 275. In FOreign Sugars no sales are reported, the small parcel of Bengal Sugars at public Sale last week went off at tbs ., previous prices.. Tonaceo.,--The sales of Tobacco since Tuesday last are con fined to small parcels to the trade: the holders, however, evinc e no inclination to force salts, and yesterday and this forenoon' the inquiries are renewed, hut the buyers offer prices a shade nyder the currency, which the holders refuse to accept. Sawrrax.—Yesterday an extensive demand for Sahrl took place, and the pri ces , w hi c h were last week 11* ild• 20s. advanced to 21s. and 218.; 6d. r a nd ea - Corrox.—The dethand for Cotton has been genera' r a y Wnsive; some Bengala and Staab, sold id higher ; bu t g ene- - 1 the market prices are unvaried, the boldem,meeting the demon Bags, the particulars are 1,400 Surats 4id a se. 4 . freely; the purchases fur the week ending 13,:it night are 2 ' 4 4id• a bid. •20 Boweds 6id. ;20 Madras 5-id. 'duty paide;d Demerara 94d. The Cotton Market to-day appear,: c, herk i t is the reported aide at the East India House, 15th proO n „ ° ,', understood, 5,000 Bags Bctigals, 4,000 Bags Surat*, 1.. 6 “ : ',", fur . dras . will be put up, and the quantity,will be th‘''' probably, they increased. i O t COFFII—After the day - of our publication (Tuesday week, St. Domingo fell from 50s to 48s 6d. The British pr . tation gave way in the some proportion ; the latter has net °l e recovered this depression, but we think at the Friday's Public 7 , 1 went higher than any previous prices ; the market looked o ' 4 ingly firm, St. Domingo remained steady at 475. 6d. a 4 g' The two public 1:1.1e this forenoon Consisted of 452 cask' au bags British Plantation, chiefly Jamaica, the whole sold or' ' briskness, fully 2s. per cwt. higher good ordinary A 4 4. ss6 l ' fine ordinary 58a. a 625. 6d. ; ordinary middling 68a. a 7 2 e' h , St. DoMingo since sold ; we should think the nearest price 00 latter is 50s. Ri et- Bi • 1 00 13eng2aos :MK, BRANDY, and HOLLANDS.--111C Rum 31a110 4 4.0 ; v .: ceedingly firm last week, h u t t h e transact i ons wer e " telniVe, ow i ng to the holders advancing the prices. Th e in ket yesterday received a fartlicr briskness, from the adl, Id. the Corn Market; a p arce l o f proof Leewards realiedlt.o be Brandy is again very h e a vy , and the vintage is expe., t `; m ire* much more productiv e th an what wits anticipated; w o i anti, are entirely nominal ; th e l ast price of 'Geneva was 2°' sal# 2a, 4d., but the holders are now looking for an advattee• an d $ to-tlay Leeward*, under proofs 2s. Id. ; t over at 2 5 . g d " over 2s. 43d. Id- Hake, Fr...sx, and Tamovv.—The prices of Tallow 11 : .- r h i ts vane*; for parcels h ere t h e pr i ce to-day i s Sfis., and N deliverY Sss. fid. ; th e quant i ty weekly t l 'd e li eer id for lion e e lieve l sumption greatly excee d s t h at of last year, and it i s _An the warm summer will greatly lessen the home sul'P' ). ' h o rn Hemp end Flax there is no material alteration. The Jettf sr , `fit. Peteishurgl t state'the Exchange rath e r lower, it " 4 ' r' dun under 041. t the° Wool.:-...The prices of Wool are w i t h out a l tera tion ; is more demand, particularly for middlindescriions. tha hist! ritovistoNs.—There . more inquiry for pnrk.yoof prices are higher;, a parcel realised a be. a dl. 21. 41 'there Is no no a l terat i on. Bacon is to-ilay hel",4 coll-gat"- prices. Irish Butters are 2s. a Ss. higher. Tht" -- 31' vance of S. a Ios. t' b e g ••s. a • i s na in be re;i t i s i L t, , in ße c n on ai serli t ence of the failure ° cr6RIP/c4.7Rejaceroli . ' Yesterday morning, at h er house RTHS in South Acidity-sir° het Exeelleney the Marchioness tie Pamela; of a daughter. 000 Bre Q n n4th ruq e 20 ., th a i i 7t. d , an a g t hte B r ri . ghto n , the, may of Willia m • On the 17th inst., at St. Nicholas, 6141mr g aushire' of rld MARRIED- Rev. Roper T. Tyler, M. A., John Auguitus, only °G ll to ( pt Right Hon. John Sullivan, of Richinp Lodge, )3 u ck , ts e:„.1.1 youngeyt daughter of Admiral "Sir Charles Tyler, I % . *" Cottrell, hi that county. On the 20th inst., at . St. m art i n ....i n .th,,new,, , hfr. • II o f • to Mibe 01%,,ICItliterelre.aleivjtri:PAnterlilvIft:,iniEengoeyra:pusotaf:rneltoctet-tn,t;Srr2trito.reeteeJwat):iinKtmlearevi'l32:;.:inciFigitet:::.l;l.eolsa:tii:lrefit,tuimiciaanlitilti;ira:: On the 19thitnit., in liamilptoWn-Dp.bice, Kennington, - A rliP bett, Ebq., late of Kew-green, Surrey, age<l N4."Aeri atChtthetothuiun:att.,ret, p t rl4,uGlarus; " nipstlirmee,heltenhani, !Ur. 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